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Noun
handedness (countable and uncountable, plural handednesses)
- (chemistry, physics) The property that distinguishes an asymmetric object from its mirror image. For example, the essential difference between a left and right glove.
- Synonym: chirality
- Hypernym: laterality
- A preference (usually innate) for using one hand rather than the other.
- Hyponyms: left-handedness, right-handedness
Related terms
- back-handedness
- bare-handedness
- bloody-handedness
- both-handedness
- cack-handedness
- clean-handedness
- close-handedness
- cross-handedness
- dead-handedness
- deft-handedness
- dirty-handedness
- double-handedness
- empty-handedness
- even-handedness
- fair-handedness
- fore-handedness
- four-handedness
- free-handedness
- full-handedness
- ham-handedness
- hard-handedness
- heavy-handedness
- high-handedness
- horny-handedness
- iron-handedness
- iron handedness
- large-handedness
- left-handed
- level-handedness
- light-handedness
- loose-handedness
- many-handedness
- mob-handedness
- neat-handedness
- off-handedness
- one-handedness
- open-handedness
- quick-handedness
- ready-handedness
- red-handedness
- right-handed
- right handedness
- second-handedness
- short-handedness
- single-handedness
- slack-handedness
- steady-handedness
- strait-handedness
- strong-handedness
- sure-handedness
- swift-handedness
- two-handedness
- under-handedness
- weak-handedness
- white-handedness
- wide-handedness
Translations
property
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